chapter one quote and voq.
Quote: "Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules." (p. 10)
Reaction:Okay so that means that the last person to be chosen cannot have a little sibling. That means that if the same thing happened to my family, my first sister would be here but the other two of my sisters wouldn't be in my family. That also means that my brother would be in my family but i wouldn't! If that ever happend to me Idon't think I would even be born because the birthmothers can only have three kids! I don't want that to ever happen but if does let them take my brothers and sisters instead...........I'm kidding XD.
spouse (p. 9) "Most of the people of the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others,which was required for the creation of a family unit."def: one's husband or wife. chapter two quote and voq.
Quote: "But to be honest, Jonas," his father said, "for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your Ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be."
Reaction: So they have a ceremony for the new twelve year olds and what they get is a job. I would hate having to work at that age because at that time of your life you do a lot of things that you want to do and you get to think about the carrer you would want to do when you grow up. If I had to get my job during the ceremony I would see if i like it but if I didn't and thought it was a job that was not what I had in mind I would leave the community. I'm not kidding on that one. :I
aptitude:talent chapter three quote
quote:The apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade.
reaction: Is he seeing things? How could the apple have changed? I think he's going crazy! What is up with him! He says that the apple changed, but then the apple somehow turns back to normal? I think he's so crazy that it's spreading to me. It's like i'm going crazy by just thinking about it. chapter three voq
chastisement:to discipline chapter four quote
quote: He could see his friend Fiona help the old man from the tub and tenderly pat his thin, naked body dry.
reaction: Sick! Washing an old person is actually a job! I'd rather wash a giant muddy car! The thing is though that they are really old and they can't do alot of things by themselves. So it's kind of like washing a baby.But still it might feel weird washing some one of that age and they might start nagging about things that you are already doing. chapter four voq
bypass:to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of chapter five quote
Quote: You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for stirrings.
Reaction: That's kind of not fare. They don't get to fall in love with someone! What if they start to get a spouse and the person doesn't even like them? That way of living I wouldn't like. The reason why is because what if someone really likes the other person and the person really likes them too? If I was there and they told me to take the pill. I would say that I took them but I really wouldn't. chapter five voq
dwelling:a building or place of shelter to live in chapter six qoute
Quote: It was as if the first Caleb were returning.
Reaction: Oh man. The first caleb dies so they replace him with someone else? I would think that they just wanted another caleb so they can forget about the caleb that died and just move on. If that ever happened to me like if I die and then my parents replace me with another Richard, I would turn into a ghost and haunt them. I'm kidding ;) chapter six voq
relinquish:to give up chapter seven quote
Quote: He couldn't seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was a Three.
Reaction: Oh my god! That is child abuse right there. Just because he said a word wrong that doesn't give the right to hit him with a stick. If it were being hit I would have caught the discipline wand and then throw it as far as I can! chapter seven voq
precision:the state or quality of being precise. chapter eight quote
Quote: Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory
Reaction: What do you have to do on that job? I don't know what you have to on that job but it sounds like a good one. I think I would like to be a reciever of memory. The only time I wouldn't exept it is if the job had to with some thing horrible. chapter eight voq
integrity:the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished chapter nine quote
Quote:"What happened to her?"he asked nervously.
But his parents looked blank. "We don't know
Reaction: I bet they do know. I think that they know what happened to her but they were one of the people that sent her away but they don't want to admit it. I imagine that if I did something wrong too they would do something to me. chapter nine voq
exempted:To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject chapter ten quote
Quote: He couldn't imagine what the thousands of pages contained.
Reaction: I can't believe that he's twelve and he's never any other book but school workbooks and the rule book. I say that the the community doesn't want anybody to come up with their imagination in the way of reading. If I was there I would come up with a story with my own imagination. chapter ten voq
conspicuous:easily seen or noticed chapter eleven quote
Quote: "Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?"
Reaction: They don't have any of those things!? I know that we don't have sleds or snow but we have hills! How can they not have hills if they grow everywhere! I feel sorry for them because they have never felt the way you role down a hill before. chapter eleven voq
perceived:to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses chapter twelve quote
Quote: "We shouldn't have!" Jonas said fiercely
Reaction: That's true! they shouldn't have done that! If they did those things them then they shouldn't done thigns like that to them. chapter twelve voq
capacity:the ability to receive or contain chapter thirteen quote
Quote: "We really have to protect people from wrong choices."
Reaction: What kind of wrong choices? Is it a wrong choice if you want to leave the communtiy because the things they do there make you feel like you have no control over your life? If I was there I would do whatever I would want to do even if the rest of the community thinks it's a wrong choice. chapter thirteen voq
access:the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use chapter fourteen quote
Quote: "But what wisdom do you get from hunger?"
Reaction: The things you learn from hunger is the way your body works and how you need to take care of yourself. That's what you learn about hunger but I think Jonas isn't talking about food. I think he means the way you starve from other things you need like imagination, color, and other cool things. chapter fourteen voq
excruciating:exceedingly elaborate or intense chapter fifteen quote
Quote:The Giver looked away, as if he could not bear to see what he had done to Jonas. "Forgive me, " he said.
Reaction: That was a sad memory and what the author described as Jonas' reaction is super sad. If it were me that was getting the bad memory I would have gone crazy! The boy that was dying and the other soldiers that were dead is super sad. chapter fifteen voq
anguish:excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain chapter sixteen quote
Quote: "And they won't be part of my life anymore. . . And they'll be well cared for and respected."
Reaction: I thought that if you give a memory away you would still remember the memory. What if you give a memory away and the person ends up dying with a super important memory? The person that gave it away wouldn't have it anymore and then the community wouldn't know what to do. chapter sixteen voq
obsolete:no longer in general use chapter seventeen quote
Quote: "Then I wave bye-bye," he said, in the special sweet voice he used when he spoke to the newchild.
Reaction: Bye-bye. Where does the baby go? Does he get sent out into another community? Does he get picked up by someone in another community? This suspense is killing me! chapter seventeen voq
overwhelmed:To present with an excessive amount chapter eighteen-nineteen
OH MY GOD! They killed the baby?! Out of all of the things they could have done to get rid of the baby and theey chose to kill it?! I would march right done to the nurturing center and tell them that they are messed up! If I was the one that got to decide the way they release someone I would have just sent them to another community or not send them out at all! The worst part is that after they kill them is that they just throw them into some place that looks like a garbage shoot! chapter twenty quote
Quote: "She's very efficient at her work, your red-haired friend. Feelings are not part of the life she's learned."
Reaction: Fiona's starting to kill old people too! OH MY GOD! There community is messed up! They just kill the twin babies and they also kill the old when they get way to old. If I lived in that community and they were getting ready to release me I would get some kind of weapon and hit them when they were about to inject me! chapter twenty voq
emphatically:strongly expressive chapter twenty one quote
Quote: "First thing tomorrow morning."
Reaction: Their going to kill Gabriel?! Sure he cries at night, but it's harsh to kill him for that! Why don't they give him to Jonas and that'll mean that he becomes a father. Everybody wins at that point. chapter twenty one voq
meticulously:taking or showing extreme care about minute details chapter twenty two-twenty three
I think that they just went in a circle! I think that they just left the community and went around it so the memories would go to the community and then when they returned the whole community would change it's rules. The way I know that they just went in a circle is that when they go to the big hill jonas said that there was a sled waiting for them. chapter twenty two voq
exquisite:extraordinarily fine or admirable chapter twenty three voq
consciousness:the state of being conscious
Quote: "Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules." (p. 10)
Reaction:Okay so that means that the last person to be chosen cannot have a little sibling. That means that if the same thing happened to my family, my first sister would be here but the other two of my sisters wouldn't be in my family. That also means that my brother would be in my family but i wouldn't! If that ever happend to me Idon't think I would even be born because the birthmothers can only have three kids! I don't want that to ever happen but if does let them take my brothers and sisters instead...........I'm kidding XD.
spouse (p. 9) "Most of the people of the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others,which was required for the creation of a family unit."def: one's husband or wife.
chapter two quote and voq.
Quote: "But to be honest, Jonas," his father said, "for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your Ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be."
Reaction: So they have a ceremony for the new twelve year olds and what they get is a job. I would hate having to work at that age because at that time of your life you do a lot of things that you want to do and you get to think about the carrer you would want to do when you grow up. If I had to get my job during the ceremony I would see if i like it but if I didn't and thought it was a job that was not what I had in mind I would leave the community. I'm not kidding on that one. :I
aptitude:talent
chapter three quote
quote:The apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade.
reaction: Is he seeing things? How could the apple have changed? I think he's going crazy! What is up with him! He says that the apple changed, but then the apple somehow turns back to normal? I think he's so crazy that it's spreading to me. It's like i'm going crazy by just thinking about it.
chapter three voq
chastisement:to discipline
chapter four quote
quote: He could see his friend Fiona help the old man from the tub and tenderly pat his thin, naked body dry.
reaction: Sick! Washing an old person is actually a job! I'd rather wash a giant muddy car! The thing is though that they are really old and they can't do alot of things by themselves. So it's kind of like washing a baby.But still it might feel weird washing some one of that age and they might start nagging about things that you are already doing.
chapter four voq
bypass:to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of
chapter five quote
Quote: You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for stirrings.
Reaction: That's kind of not fare. They don't get to fall in love with someone! What if they start to get a spouse and the person doesn't even like them? That way of living I wouldn't like. The reason why is because what if someone really likes the other person and the person really likes them too? If I was there and they told me to take the pill. I would say that I took them but I really wouldn't.
chapter five voq
dwelling:a building or place of shelter to live in
chapter six qoute
Quote: It was as if the first Caleb were returning.
Reaction: Oh man. The first caleb dies so they replace him with someone else? I would think that they just wanted another caleb so they can forget about the caleb that died and just move on. If that ever happened to me like if I die and then my parents replace me with another Richard, I would turn into a ghost and haunt them. I'm kidding ;)
chapter six voq
relinquish:to give up
chapter seven quote
Quote: He couldn't seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was a Three.
Reaction: Oh my god! That is child abuse right there. Just because he said a word wrong that doesn't give the right to hit him with a stick. If it were being hit I would have caught the discipline wand and then throw it as far as I can!
chapter seven voq
precision:the state or quality of being precise.
chapter eight quote
Quote: Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory
Reaction: What do you have to do on that job? I don't know what you have to on that job but it sounds like a good one. I think I would like to be a reciever of memory. The only time I wouldn't exept it is if the job had to with some thing horrible.
chapter eight voq
integrity:the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished
chapter nine quote
Quote:"What happened to her?"he asked nervously.
But his parents looked blank. "We don't know
Reaction: I bet they do know. I think that they know what happened to her but they were one of the people that sent her away but they don't want to admit it. I imagine that if I did something wrong too they would do something to me.
chapter nine voq
exempted:To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject
chapter ten quote
Quote: He couldn't imagine what the thousands of pages contained.
Reaction: I can't believe that he's twelve and he's never any other book but school workbooks and the rule book. I say that the the community doesn't want anybody to come up with their imagination in the way of reading. If I was there I would come up with a story with my own imagination.
chapter ten voq
conspicuous:easily seen or noticed
chapter eleven quote
Quote: "Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?"
Reaction: They don't have any of those things!? I know that we don't have sleds or snow but we have hills! How can they not have hills if they grow everywhere! I feel sorry for them because they have never felt the way you role down a hill before.
chapter eleven voq
perceived:to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses
chapter twelve quote
Quote: "We shouldn't have!" Jonas said fiercely
Reaction: That's true! they shouldn't have done that! If they did those things them then they shouldn't done thigns like that to them.
chapter twelve voq
capacity:the ability to receive or contain
chapter thirteen quote
Quote: "We really have to protect people from wrong choices."
Reaction: What kind of wrong choices? Is it a wrong choice if you want to leave the communtiy because the things they do there make you feel like you have no control over your life? If I was there I would do whatever I would want to do even if the rest of the community thinks it's a wrong choice.
chapter thirteen voq
access:the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use
chapter fourteen quote
Quote: "But what wisdom do you get from hunger?"
Reaction: The things you learn from hunger is the way your body works and how you need to take care of yourself. That's what you learn about hunger but I think Jonas isn't talking about food. I think he means the way you starve from other things you need like imagination, color, and other cool things.
chapter fourteen voq
excruciating:exceedingly elaborate or intense
chapter fifteen quote
Quote:The Giver looked away, as if he could not bear to see what he had done to Jonas. "Forgive me, " he said.
Reaction: That was a sad memory and what the author described as Jonas' reaction is super sad. If it were me that was getting the bad memory I would have gone crazy! The boy that was dying and the other soldiers that were dead is super sad.
chapter fifteen voq
anguish:excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain
chapter sixteen quote
Quote: "And they won't be part of my life anymore. . . And they'll be well cared for and respected."
Reaction: I thought that if you give a memory away you would still remember the memory. What if you give a memory away and the person ends up dying with a super important memory? The person that gave it away wouldn't have it anymore and then the community wouldn't know what to do.
chapter sixteen voq
obsolete:no longer in general use
chapter seventeen quote
Quote: "Then I wave bye-bye," he said, in the special sweet voice he used when he spoke to the newchild.
Reaction: Bye-bye. Where does the baby go? Does he get sent out into another community? Does he get picked up by someone in another community? This suspense is killing me!
chapter seventeen voq
overwhelmed:To present with an excessive amount
chapter eighteen-nineteen
OH MY GOD! They killed the baby?! Out of all of the things they could have done to get rid of the baby and theey chose to kill it?! I would march right done to the nurturing center and tell them that they are messed up! If I was the one that got to decide the way they release someone I would have just sent them to another community or not send them out at all! The worst part is that after they kill them is that they just throw them into some place that looks like a garbage shoot!
chapter twenty quote
Quote: "She's very efficient at her work, your red-haired friend. Feelings are not part of the life she's learned."
Reaction: Fiona's starting to kill old people too! OH MY GOD! There community is messed up! They just kill the twin babies and they also kill the old when they get way to old. If I lived in that community and they were getting ready to release me I would get some kind of weapon and hit them when they were about to inject me!
chapter twenty voq
emphatically:strongly expressive
chapter twenty one quote
Quote: "First thing tomorrow morning."
Reaction: Their going to kill Gabriel?! Sure he cries at night, but it's harsh to kill him for that! Why don't they give him to Jonas and that'll mean that he becomes a father. Everybody wins at that point.
chapter twenty one voq
meticulously:taking or showing extreme care about minute details
chapter twenty two-twenty three
I think that they just went in a circle! I think that they just left the community and went around it so the memories would go to the community and then when they returned the whole community would change it's rules. The way I know that they just went in a circle is that when they go to the big hill jonas said that there was a sled waiting for them.
chapter twenty two voq
exquisite:extraordinarily fine or admirable
chapter twenty three voq
consciousness:the state of being conscious